REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES P: DECLASSIFIED Authority Stateletter whe by ME, NARA Cate 2418 instigators or any dataranowfor tendóney toward violence as foreigners (usually Noaraguans) 18 exemplified in the statement which was made to me by the Minister for foreign Arfairs when he declared that Arguedas had been born in Honduras and was a Sandinista general. The newspapers have gone into this phase of the matter and state that he was born in Costa Rica, and while he han visited other Republlo. of Central America, there no indication or reason to believe that he has ever changed his Costa Rican citizenship or engaged actively with Sandino in his campaigns, The incident han courred at a mont untortunate and inopportune moment, just as the Government has been resorting to every means possible to secure a loan, both at home and abroad. The Minister or Gobernación laia particular stress upon this phase of the situation when he called the local representative of the United Press to his ortices and insisted that botore the Incident was given cable publloity in any countries, he must secure the approval of the Minister of Public Safety.
Since there is no death penalty in Costa Rioa, the general belief is that most if not all of these men will receive sentences in prison (the leader probably from 12 to 14 years. but that, at the change of administration next day, they will all be 11 berated.
The regret is expressed by many that the famous ley de taga was not invoked against the leader, Arguedas, ana that in this manner the leader at least might have been made